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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Wall St. Journal op-ed by two Swedish elected officials: Mr. Trump did not exaggerate Sweden’s current problems-if anything, he understated them. Riots and social unrest are now everyday life, gang violence is booming. Dec. 2010 marked Sweden's first Islamic suicide bomber terror attack. Artists live under death threats, performances are cancelled for fear of angering Islamists. Returning ISIS members are welcomed with open arms. Jews in Malmo are refugees in their country of birth-Wall St. Journal, 2/22/17

Riots
and social unrest have become a part of everyday life.Police officers,
firefighters and ambulance personnel are regularly attacked. Serious
riots in 2013, involving many suburbs with large immigrant populations,
lasted for almost a week.Gang violence is booming.Despite very strict
firearm laws, gun violence is five times as common in Sweden, in total,
as in the capital cities of our three Nordic neighbors combined.

The number of sex crimes nearly doubled from 2014-15, according to surveys by the Swedish government body for crime statistics. One-third of Swedish women report that they no longer feel secure in their own neighborhoods, and 12% say
they don’t feel safe going out alone after dark. A 1996 report from the
same government body found that immigrant men were far likelier to
commit rape than Swedish men. Last year our party asked the minister of
justice to conduct a new report on crime and immigration, and he
replied: “In light of previous studies, I do not see that a further
report on recorded crime and individuals’ origins would add knowledge
with the potential to improve the Swedish society.”

Sweden’s government now
spends an incredible amount of money caring for newly arrived immigrants
each year. The unemployment rate among immigrants is five times as high
as that of native Swedes. Among some groups, such as Somalis, in places
like Malmö unemployment reaches 80%.

"An Islamic suicide bomber who attacked Christmas shoppers in Sweden at the
weekend is a British university graduate and was living in this country
until two weeks ago."

"Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly tried to set off a
car bomb packed with gas canisters in a busy shopping street in
Stockholm. The car caught fire and the bomber fled the scene before
blowing himself up 300yd away 15 minutes later, injuring two bystanders.

It emerged last night that
Abdulwahab, who was due to turn 29 yesterday, is a former physical
therapy student at Bedfordshire University in Luton, and that his wife
and three young children still live in the town....

Abdulmutallab had trained in Yemen, but had become increasingly radical
during his time in Britain. The security services and police are
concerned that British university campuses have become breeding grounds
forextremism. Neighbours told The Daily Telegraph last night that they
had last seen Abdulwahab...two and a half weeks ago. The couple have two young girls and a
baby son. His wife, Mona, a Swedish citizen, is said to run a home
beauty company....Abdulwahab used to go to Friday prayers at the Islamic Centre in Luton.

The bomber had recently advertised on a Muslim dating site for a second
wife, saying he was looking for a “lady 25-30 who lives in UK for
marriage”. The site, Muslima.com, said he was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and
moved to Sweden in 1992 and then to Britain in 2001 to study for a
degree in physical therapy, marrying in 2004.

On his Facebook
page, he included a group called Yawm al-Qiyaamah, meaning Day of
Judgment, that featured a montage of Tower Bridge in flames.

One witness said the
bomber had worked as a sandwich board advertiser in the Drottninggatan
shopping area.

Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, said it
was “a most worrying attempt at a terrorist attack”, adding that it
“failed – but could have been truly catastrophic”. Theresa May, the Home
Secretary, said: “The Swedish government have indicated they believe
this was a terrorist attack. We will be talking to them about the
details of that attack.”

Abdulwahab’s father, Thamer, 61, who lives in Tranås, south of Stockholm, said his son had been at the family home on Friday.

“After he woke up Saturday morning, he took his car and drove off,” he
said. “He did not say if he was going to Stockholm or elsewhere.”

An Yemeni Islamist website, Shumukh al-Islam, published a photograph of
Abdulwahab in dark glasses, saying: “It is our brother, mujahid Taymour
Abdel Wahab, who carried out the martyrdom operation in Stockholm.”

Twelve minutes before the bombing on Saturday, a Swedish news agency
received a message with two sound files, one in Swedish and one in
Arabic, that was also sent to the Swedish Security Police. The message
criticised Swedes’ silence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammedand
Swedish soldiers serving in Afghanistan.Abdulwahab said: “Now your
children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our
sisters and our children are dying.”

He also asked his family
for forgiveness for misleading them about a trip to the Middle East: “I
never went to the Middle East to work or to make money, I went for
jihad.” He asked his wife to kiss the children on his behalf. “Tell them
Daddy loves them,” he added." image above from UK Telegraph--------------------------------